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1. Livy. History of Rome. English Translation. Rev. Canon Roberts. New York, New York. E. P. Dutton and Co. 1912. 2. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
- Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - Perseus Digital Library
Translator's preface. THE Latin text of this volume has been...
- Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - Perseus Digital Library
Translator's preface. THE Latin text of this volume has been set up from that of the ninth edition (1908) of Book I., and the eighth edition (1894) of Book II., by Weissenborn and Müller, except that the Periochae have been reprinted from the text of Rossbach (1910).
Livy seems to have called his history simply Ab Urbe Condita, “From the Founding of the City,” 20 just as Tacitus was later to call his Annals Ab Excessu Divi Augusti, “From the death of the Divine Augustus.”
The History of Rome, perhaps originally titled Annales, and frequently referred to as Ab Urbe Condita (English: From the Founding of the City), [1] is a monumental history of ancient Rome, written in Latin between 27 and 9 BC by the Roman historian Titus Livius, better known in English as "Livy".
that the weight of the meaning seems to lie in the participle rather than in the noun. This peculiar relationship between participle and noun may be seen in the well-known phrase of dating, ab urbe condita, which for want of an exact definition is often used to identify the construction.
Translator’s Preface. The Latin text of this volume has been set up from that of the ninth edition (1908) of Book I., and the eighth edition (1894) of Book II., by Weissenborn and Müller, except that the Periochae have been reprinted from the text of Rossbach (1910).
Meaning: from the city having been founded. Comment. Or, "from the founding of Rome", which occurred in 753 BC, according to Livy's count. It was used as a referential year in ancient Rome from which subsequent years were calculated, prior to being replaced by other dating conventions.
